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Srinagar, After the authorities allowed congregational prayers at the historic Jama Masjid after three consecutive weeks, All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq who was also freed from the three-week-long house detention termed the prevailing situation as worrisome, adding, that Kashmir was passing through the worst phase of repression ...

Srinagar, The two militants, one of them Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit chief Masood Azhar’s nephew, who were killed in a gunfight with government forces at Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, were buried on Wednesday. While the Azhar’s nephew Mohammad Usman has been buried at Gantmulla area of Sheeri in north Kashmir’s ...

By Maria Abi-Habib &DharishaBastians When Sri Lanka’s president was elected in 2015, he was given a sweeping mandate from voters to investigate accusations of war crimes and graft against his predecessor’s government and to cancel deals with China that had plunged the country into debt. Now the president, Maithripala Sirisena, ...

Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Tuesday dismissed the assertions of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as highly uncouth and a shared effort to use Kashmir to lever poll benefits in the upcoming elections. Speaking in a meeting here at party headquarters Nawa-e-Subh, party general secretary Haji Ali Muhammad ...

Srinagar, Three militants have been killed so far during an ongoing gunfight with government forces at Midoora area of Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Reports said that the house in which the militants were hiding has been set on fire, the official confirmed the killing of three militants but the ...

By Eric Ng The planning behind many of China’s major infrastructure projects abroad has been “downright inadequate”, leading to huge financial losses, according to the head of the country’s state export credit insurer. Wang Wen, of China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation, known as Sinosure, said Chinese developers and financiers ...

Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar on Monday visited the families of two slain militants who were killed in a gunfight with government forces in Fateh Kadal of Srinagar city last week. The Mirwaiz also visited the family of the slain civilian Rayees Ahmad who ...

Srinagar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday questioned the state Governor Satya Pal Malik over his recent allegations, stating that the governor’s frequent remarks end up defaming Kashmiris and vital institutions of the state and for him every Kashmiri is a thief. Senior PDP leader and former minister Naeem Akhtar ...

By Samuel Baid The tragedy of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet was that the Prince of Denmark had much a bigger emotion of revenge than the objective correlative to let it out. A similar tragedy seems to be threatening to hit Pakistan where the present Prime Minister is burdened with a heavier ...